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authorjoey <joey>2002-10-28 16:28:35 +0000
committerjoey <joey>2002-10-28 16:28:35 +0000
commitc0d066ddce232280756df9c5b218c3c6145001bb (patch)
treebf7940585514f7f5835f84766fd15a2115491dcc /dh_installdebconf
parent79cd10da45b0324c7e8e18c4f7daffbd1d245fab (diff)
r559: * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
confmodule. (Cf #106070) * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
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@@ -28,6 +28,11 @@ installed into the DEBIAN directory in the package build directory.
Note that if you use debconf, your package probably needs to depend on it
(it will be added to ${misc:Depends} by this program).
+Note that for your config script to be called by dpkg, your postinst
+needs to source debconf's confmodule. dh_installdebconf does not
+install this statement into postinst automatically as it it too hard to
+do it right.
+
=head1 LOCALIZED TEMPLATE FILES
Debconf also supports localized template files, and this program has some